Angela schreef: [cut]
easy to see whether or not there are outstanding requests. Perhaps moving urgent requests to a separate section at the top would help in future. There is a (not-very-active) IRC channel at #wikimedia-stewards, but the #wikimedia channel is often a better place to find a steward in an emergency. I don't know whether either of these channels were tried before finding a developer.
This might just be a sign that new steward elections are required.
Angela.
I do not think there are to few stewards but it is to difficult to find one.
That can be fixt more or less. IRC is the best hope I think to contact a steward if needed.
1) the stewards need to be online on IRC and best also in the #wikimedia-stewards channel
-> I will send a message to the stewards to ask to also be in the #wikimedia-stewards channel when the can. Some will probably not even really know of the channel. And to add there IRC Nick to; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards#Active_stewards
2) Making it more easy for the users to get in that channel. I have added #wikimedia-stewards to the list of channels you can go to from http://chat.wikizine.org and included links to in from the steward and request for permissions page
3) On the IRC channel of the dutch wikipedia there is a bot active to get the attention of the sysops when a user has a problem. The user enters a command ( !mod ) and then the bot posts the names of all the active sysops online. The then get probably a warning from there IRC-client that there name is posted and some come to see what the problem is. The bot operator is on holiday now. I can ask him of he can provide a similar service for the stewards.